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2.5 out of 5
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What is SAS Activity-Based Management?

SAS Activity-Based Management is an analytic application that models business processes to determine cost, profitability and drivers. With this solution, organizations can make informed decisions that streamline processes, deliver revenue growth and reduce costs across the organization.
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SAS Activity-Based Management is the #18 ranked solution in top Business Performance Management solutions. PeerSpot users give SAS Activity-Based Management an average rating of 5.0 out of 10. SAS Activity-Based Management is most commonly compared to Oracle Hyperion: SAS Activity-Based Management vs Oracle Hyperion.
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As of April 2025, the mindshare of SAS Activity-Based Management in the Business Performance Management category stands at 1.1%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Valuable Features

SAS Activity-Based Management offers OLAP drilling functions with chart/graph capabilities, allowing for data extraction and presentation preparation. Users benefit from cost tracing across multiple allocations, enabling detailed cost distribution in complex models. SAS Enterprise Guide facilitates query building without SQL, enhancing its usability. Cube generation supports data visualization on MS analysis servers, crucial for accounting tasks like cost allocation and transfer pricing. Its advanced calculations surpass Excel's capabilities, catering to sophisticated financial models.

Room for Improvement

SAS Activity-Based Management needs simplified usability and an intuitive interface. Users find it resembles a black box, complicating understanding and modification. Issues like unchanged default layout and complex data integration hinder efficiency. The absence of a 'drilling with graph function' is regrettable in new updates. Visualization of cost flow lacks user-friendliness, and analysis requires excessive time for building OLAP cubes. Consideration for more logical user constraints and competitive interface design would be beneficial.

Service and Support

Customer service for SAS Activity-Based Management receives mixed feedback, with some users rating it a 6 out of 10 due to unresolved issues after upgrading to version 6.4. Others find it generally good, though not heavily supported. Technical support also varies, with local support rated 7 out of 10 by some, while others find the support not very resource-intensive and rate it as low. While SAS services are generally praised, support for this system seems limited in resources.

Stability

SAS Activity-Based Management experiences stability challenges, especially with large databases and OLAP extractions, potentially leading to unresolved performance issues. Users notice the system cache not clearing, necessitating occasional reboots. Role-based access requirements can cause instability during project work. These concerns suggest ongoing stability limitations.
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SAS Activity-Based Management customers

Bank of Queensland, Barclays Bank, BioMar, Danske Bank, Danske Spil, DPPS, First Allied

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Performance Management/VP at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Verified user of SAS Activity-Based Management
Feb 16, 2015
OLAP data extraction and export is a valuable feature but the drilling function needs to be brought back.

What is most valuable?

SAS Activity Based Management (ABM):

  • OLAP drilling function with chart/ graphs (available on version 6.2 but removed in version 6.4): this function helps in presentation preparation
  • OLAP data extraction and export
  • Able to trace back the various stages of allocation performed (i.e cost object module can trace all the way back from multiple allocations done in activity/ resource module)

SAS EG (Enterprise Guide): allow users to build query and perform ETL without the need to write SQL codes. Very useful software if the user has been trained well to use the software.

How has it helped my organization?

ABM:

  • We use ABM as an expense allocation model and it has improve the awareness and accountability of the cost incurred (due to the 'traceability' feature as mentioned in no.4 above).
  • We are able to run and refresh the expense allocation result based on monthly source data (Driver Quantity) to derive more accurate data for reporting. (We are aware that many other organisations are using excel spreadsheet to perform their allocation and it has very much restricted the frequency and complexity of the allocation that they can be performed).

EG has helped to handle huge database ETL which definitely improve efficiency.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Data Scientist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of SAS Activity-Based Management
May 11, 2015
It helped determine the organization's true cost of providing its products but there were deployment problems because the installation was extremely difficult.

What is most valuable?

The product is designed for very specific accounting based projects such as cost allocation and maybe transfer pricing.

How has it helped my organization?

The product helped determine the organization's true cost of providing its products and services to customers.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Optimization Consultant with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of SAS Activity-Based Management
Apr 30, 2015
Product version discussed: 7.1
ABM is able to calculate how costs are split and added. However, changes in the model were not easy as some user constraints were not logical.

What is most valuable?

The calculation ability because when you make Activity Based cost models, you need to be able to calculate the distributed cost for each activity. The model consists of several layers and ABM is able to calculate how costs are split and added.

This task is too advanced for Excel and it needs a specific system. We have used ABM to make the calculations for us, but we extract the data and present it using cubes on an MS analysis server.

How has it helped my organization?

The product allows us to calculate the distributed cost across activities

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of SAS Activity-Based Management
Feb 19, 2015
It could be made much more simpler. Most of the time it looks like a black box for developers.

What is most valuable?

Cube generation is a valuable feature.

How has it helped my organization?

  • Cost optimization
  • Transparency
*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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CEO at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
Verified user of SAS Activity-Based Management
Jul 18, 2017
Helps to compare production costs across different departments. Try CostPerform from QPR.

How has it helped my organization?

Helps to compare production costs across different departments.

What needs improvement?

  • The data integration is very complex
  • Visualization of the cost flow is not user-friendly
  • It takes hours to build OLAP cubes to analyze the results of the model
*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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